Nancy Astor Quotes

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Red
  • Crime
  • Stock

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Friendships
  • Begin
  • Lots

• I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Firearms

• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • American
  • Happy
  • Culture

• My confidence comes from my fights and my training.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Confidence
  • Training
  • Fights

• If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Good
  • Information
  • Treat

• I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Golf
  • Boring
  • Bread

• People will always want a free lunch.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Free
  • Lunch

• For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Magic

• It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Running
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Inspiration

• 'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Control
  • Die

• Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Boys

• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Desire
  • Lying
  • Example

• The new electoral system gives us a powerful tool to improve the work of the entire Soviet system, in order to eliminate bureaucratic phenomena, shortcomings and deformations in Soviet organizations. And these shortcomings are, as you know, very real. Our Party organizations must be prepared for the election campaign. In the elections, they must deal with hostile propaganda and hostile candidates.

  

  Andrei Zhdanov
  • Propaganda
  • Elections
  • Candidates

• I like being able to, you know, pack up and leave the country and hop on a plane and go wherever I want and stay wherever and bring my friends with me and bring my family on vacation. That's amazing.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Patient
  • Disaster
  • Diagnosis

• Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

  

  Nancy Astor